Police are now looking for a man who torched the De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara home of two of his sisters yesterday.
The two-bedroom wooden house was destroyed after the fire was set around midday.
No one was at home at the time of the fire.
The arsonist, Stabroek News was told, had a misunderstanding with the women. Before the fire started, he reportedly told a village councillor that one of his sisters had a man in the house. He then threatened to burn the house down. Up to yesterday morning, one of his sisters went to the Leonora Police Station to make a report about his behaviour.
Colbert Leander, a member of the Tuschen/Uitvlugt Neighbourhood Democratic Council, told Stabroek News that the man was drinking beer and cursing when he approached him.
“He said he would burn the house down and I told him don’t do that and that I would call his eldest sister from Den Amstel and let her know,” he related.
According to him, he was still speaking to the sister on the phone from the veranda when “I looked up and saw the big fire.”
Leander said he saw the suspect “running on the street and I asked him if he set the fire. He told me yes, I set the effing fire.”
The arsonist works in the interior and only recently returned to the area.